Category: Industry Events

Henry Stewart, the first (and at one time only) DAM conference organiser have announced the dates for each of their conference venues in 2012:

• DAM New York – May 10th – 11th
• DAM Europe* – June 25th – 26th
• DAM Chicago – September 13th
• DAM Los Angeles – November

Createasphere have made us aware of their 2012 conference dates.  For those readers who plan to attend one or more event, the breakdown is:

• Los Angeles – February 22-23, 2012
• New York – September 27-28, 2012
• New York (including DAMMY Awards) – September 28, 2012
• The Hague (Netherlands) – November

One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto are hosting a one hour webinar presentation on “The Invisible Dangers of DAM”.  The webinar will cover these major topics

• Managing expectations and delivering successfully at a level that can be achieved and maintained over time.
• Monitoring and improving DAM systems so

The New York Enterprise Search Group is holding a ‘meetup’ seminar that will discuss “Video Search and the Rise of Time-coded Metadata”.  Timecode or timeline metadata is one of these subject areas that offers currently untapped potential for DAM systems, so this event looks well worth attending if you either …

Kashyap Kompella from consultants, Real Story Group has written up a summary of the Creatasphere DAM Europe conference which was held in the Hague (Netherlands) recently.  Kashyap has done a great job of distilling the material from the conference into this piece and covers 10 key areas:

• DAM is (finally)

A conference dedicated to the popular open source Lucene/Solr text search library (which is widely used by both open source and commercial DAM systems) is being held in Barcelona on 19-20th October.  The event costs money to attend but if your business or organisation depends on Lucene or Solr …

Returning to New York for a second year, the 2011 Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference will be held from 22nd – 23rd September 2011 at the New Yorker Hotel, New York. The schedule includes: Leveraging the Cloud, Storage & Disaster Recovery, Open Source, Immersive Technologies, Metadata and Branding & DAM.…

The organisers of the 4th Annual Cloud Computing Forum, which will be held at Earls Court in London, UK next June, are now offering early-bird discounts on Gold and Gold + passes for the 2012 show.  The highest attended cloud event in Europe, CCWF attracts some of the biggest names …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Canto, will present “Getting Started with DAM” on July 27. The free webinar is intended to educate those researching DAM (or already involved in a DAM system purchase) on what steps to take to ensure their DAM system is successful. Join DAM …

One of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM are running series of webinars on Digital Asset Management.  The first is: “Metadata 101: Building A Solid Foundation” on 14th July 2011 at 10am (PT).

“Metadata is a core component to digital asset management and powerful tool when used effectively. In …

The O’Reilly Strata Conference: “Making Data Work” is being held between 22nd and 23rd September, 2011.  It has a wide ranging brief and hopes to cover numerous different elements of modern data usage.  Speakers include: Drew Conway (New York University), Hilary Mason (bit.ly) and Peter Warden (OpenHeatMap).

“At our …